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Thomas Lengauer, director at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science and spokesman of the Center for Bioinformatics at Saarland University in Saarbrücken, has become president of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).

State Secretary Jürgen Lennartz awarded the Saarland State Chancellery-sponsored Journalist Prize for Informatics. The main prizes in the print, radio, and television categories went to the reporter Florian Güßgen for a report in the weekly magazine “Stern,” to the editor Alexandra Distler for a radio report on the Bayerischer Rundfunk and to the director Jan Tenhaven for a documentary on Arte. The awards each include €5,000 in prize money. This is the eleventh such award ceremony to take place in Saarbrücken.